By: João Pedro Caputo (Grade 4)

On October 1st, the world will celebrate the international day of the most consumed drink in the world, coffee. How can some burned seeds become the economic pillar of the 5th biggest country in the world, and how the hero of this country became its biggest villain.

Brazil is a country that has had around 4 cycles: gold, sugar cane, coffee and soy. Three of them are related to agriculture because Brazil has a huge territory to cultivate. But coffee had one thing in particular. Brazil depends on it. Without it, Brazil would break. It saved Brazil from the 1800s until 1929 when the world suffered a crisis because the New York Stock Market crashed and made the USA, our biggest partner, stop buying coffee.

So that’s how some burned seeds saved and destroyed us.

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